The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06
THE NEW COURT HOUSE.
AN EFFORT TO OBTAIN THE OLD
CEMETERY AS ITS SITE.

The County Commissioners to Ask the
Legislature For It-They Will OPP
pose the Bill to Make Chatham
County Pay the Expenses of the
City Court.
A special meeting of the County Commits
sioners was held yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of considering matters in regard to
the county poor farm and the new court
house.
The question of a location for the pro-
posed poor farm was, after some dis
cussion, referred back to the special com
mittee for the purpose Of obtaining further
information as to the eligibility of certain
sites
The Commissioners made departure on
the new court house project, and instructed
the County Solicitor TO prepare the neces-
sary bills authorizing the sale of the present
court house, and asking the Legislature to
vest the title to the old cemetery in the
county for the purpose Of erecting thereon
court house and such other public build
lngs as the county may need, the idea being
TO make it a public park with the court
house located in it,
The following bill now before the Legis-
lature was read:
of Savannah from the payment of any ex-
pense attached to the City Court of Savannah;
from all payments of fees or salary to the
Solicitor General of the Eastern Circuit and the
officers of said court on account OF service in
said court and TO require the payment out of
the Treasury of Chatham county of such fees
to the Solicitor General and officers of said
court as have heretofore been paid out of the
Treasury OF the City az Savannah
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia in General Assembly met, and
it is hereby enacted by the authority
OF the same, that from and after the
passage of this act the Mayor and Aldermen of
the City of Savannah shall be relieved from
making any payment from the Treasury of said
city of any expenses attached to the City Court
OF Savannah. of any fees or salary to the Solicitor
General of the Eastern Circuit for services in
said court of any fees or salaries to the officers
of said court.
SEc.2 2. And it is hereby further enacted by
the authority of the same, that from and after
the passage OF this act. all expenses attached to
the City Court of Savannah, all fees and salary
to the Solicitor General of the Eastern Circuit
for services in said court. and all fees and sala-
ries to the officers of said court, payable now
out of the Treasury of the city of Savannah,
shall be paid out of the Treasury of the county
of Chatham.
1t was
ordered, That the members of the Legis-
lature be requested to oppose the pas
sage of the bill to relieve the City of Savan-
nah from paying any expenses attached to
the City Court because the power of the
county TO levy taxes is limited aud the lay
ing of any further special burdens on the
taxpayers should be avoided if possible
The taxing power of the municipal govern
ment of the city Of Savannah is virtually
unlimited, and it elects the very officers
the salaries of whom the bill proposes shall
be paid by the county, and it should there
said court.
In the matter of opening Lovers lane
from Waters road to the SI,idaway road
was referred back to the committee to per-
feet papers.